Golden cages, medals and landscape views

Here are the stories we’re following the week beginning August 1.  Monday It’s Swiss National Day and to celebrate swissinfo.ch mined more than 22,000 images on Flickr and shows you the most popular ones – and they’re not all chocolate-box landscapes. Wednesday Lights, camera, action! Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival starts on August 3. Each year it shows many 16mm and 35mm films. swissinfo.ch has been following the work of the professionals who look after and prepare these films – a dying breed, due to the rise of digital. Wednesday and Thursday Of the 107 Swiss Olympians heading to Rio, 58 have Twitter accounts. On Wednesday, two days before the Games begin, we publish a Twitter list with all their latest posts, showing Switzerland’s multilingual athletes at work, rest and play. On Thursday, we consider Swiss Olympic medal success – and failure – over the years and report on how the Swiss have been helping to clean up ...